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24. Model, Texture, and Render an Interior Scene

25. How to Create City Blocks

26. Planet Tutorial

27. Creating Detailed Buildings for City Scene

Character Related C4D Tutorials

28. Oculus Medicus

29. Model a Venus-styled Robot

30. Modeling a Hand

31. A Recipe for Skin

Text Related C4D Tutorials

32. 3D Text Shatter Effect

33. Incredibly Realistic Water Text

34. Font Explode

35. Create a Jelly-like Text Animation

36. Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment

37. 3D type explosion

38. Creating a Chrome Metal with Great Reflections

39. Create a Twisted 3D Text

40. 3D Valentine’s Day Typography

41. Beautiful Xmas Wallpaper

42. Make an Impressive Exploding Text Effect

43. Cinema 4D Extruded Text

44. 3d text tutorial

45. Dynamic Modelling

Icons & Logo Related C4D Tutorials

46. Create a Stylish Liquid Type Logo

47. High Dynamic Range Imaging

48. RSS icon on c4d how to

Effects and Abstract Related C4D Tutorials

49. Create an Abstract Armored Sphere Scene

50. Expose Render

51. How i do my materials

52. Abstract Cinema 4D Tutorial

53. Abstract Flower

54. Matraid Cinema4D Tutorial

55. C4d mats and render tutorial

56. Create a Gorgeous Abstract Greeble Scene

57. Simple Splash Tutorial

58. Motion Graphics: Project Workflow

59. Snazzy Door Type Effect

60. HDRI tutorial

Video Tutorials

61. Create Amazingly Realistic Renders

62. Comedy Titles in Cinema 4D

63. Transformers Titles in Cinema 4D

64. Create a Realistic Subway Station Scene

65. SLOW MoDynamics

66. MoDynamics: Fracture

67. Metaball Tutorial in Cinema 4D

68. Dynamic Deformers

69. How to make a Cascading Text Animation

70. Create a Detailed Zune HD MP3 Player

71. Landscape in Cinema 4D tutorial

72. Create a Jumping Lamp Animation in C4D

73. Cloth & Hair

74. Wireframe video-tutorial

75. Using text and spline objects

76. Morphing in Cinema 4D

77. Recreate Sherlock Holmes trailer title

78. Modelling a chair

79. Construct a Detailed Type 97 Hand Grenade

80. Modelling a bath

81. Cinema 4D Diamonds Tutorial

82. Create an Animated Bar Graph with Cinema 4D

83. Fracture Text Breaking News Open

84. Multi coloured fur-1

85. Multi coloured fur-2

Further Resources to More Cinema 4D Tutorials

Other Resources

Find Something Missing?

While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some other great tutorials. Feel free to share it with us.

Win Free 5000 Business Cards from NextDayFlyers!

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50+ Free Resources for Charts and Graphs Solution

Anders Ross — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:08:21 +0000

A chart or a graph is a visual representation of data, in which “the data are represented by symbols, such as bars, lines, or slices”. These symbols can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of qualitative structures. For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Charts and Graphs to display the meaningful data visualizations. As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I really like to display my data analytics on pie charts and graphs too.

Nowadays, there are over hundred thousands of resources available on the web. Instead of spending time on researching for the ones you needed, we pick the top and intelligent ones for you. Below, you’ll find a collection of Essential Free Resources for Charts and Graphs Solution by which you can increase your productivity.

A chart can take a large variety of forms, however there are common features that provide the chart with its ability to extract meaning from data.

Typically a chart is graphical, containing very little text, since humans are generally able to infer meaning from pictures quicker than from text. One of the more important uses of text in a graph is in the title. A graph’s title usually appears above the main graphic and provides a succinct description of what the data in the graph refers to.

The data of a chart can appear in all manner of formats, with or without individual labels. It may appear as dots or shapes, connected or unconnected, and in any combination of colors and patterns. Inferences or points of interest can be overlayed directly on the graph to further aid information extraction.

When the data appearing in a chart contains multiple variables, the chart may include a legend. A legend contains a list of the variables appearing in the chart and an example of their appearance. This information allows the data from each variable to be identified in the chart.

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Free Resources for Charts and Graphs Solution

Realizing the increasing demand of useful apps across the web, we regularly feature commercial and free application on instantShift, so decided it was time to bring a roundup of highly essential solutions for charts and graphs to your attention. So, Let’s start with this compilation that every web developer, designer and freelancer should consider. Just keep in mind that this list isn’t a ranking list of charts and graphs solutions.

JavaScript Based Resources

TufteGraph
Highcharts
JS Charts
Protovis
MilkChart
Plotkit
gRaphaël
Visualize
Flot
API Google Chart
Moochart
InfoVis
Canvas 3D Graph
Dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library
Flotr Javascript Plotting Library
JavaScript Diagram Builder
Grafico: Javascript Charting Library
MooWheel
MooCSSChart
Processing.js
JSXGraph
jQuery Sparklines
JavaScript Chart
Bluff
TableDiagram
HTML-Graphs

PHP/ASP Libraries Based Resources

pChart
Visifire
jqPlot
Libchart
JpGraph
.netCHARTING
Image Graph

Flash-Based Resources

FusionCharts
XML/SWF Charts
Amcharts
Open Flash Chart
AnyChart
Rich Chart
Swiff Chart

Other Resources

JFreeChart
ProtoChart

JavaScript Based Free Resources

TufteGraph

TufteGraph is a JS library by which you can easily create graphs. All the configuration is by dynamic functions, allowing for a really compact API (very few options). Also, Non-core layout is done via CSS rather than code. You can customize the style of graph by editing it’s CSS.

Highcharts

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types. It works in all modern browsers including the iPhone and Internet Explorer from version 6. Standard browsers use the Canvas element and in some cases SVG for the graphics rendering. In Internet Explorer graphics are drawn using VML.

JS Charts

JS Charts is a JavaScript chart generator that requires little or no coding. JS Charts allows you to easily create charts in different templates like bar charts, pie charts or simple line graphs.

JS Charts is available free only for non-commercial purpose. For commercial use, get the full license for only $149. This license does NOT allow you to distribute, resell or embed/enclose JS Charts into another distribution pack/application which outputs similar content that can be used by third parties.

Protovis

Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction.

Protovis is free and open-source, provided under the BSD License. It uses JavaScript and SVG for web-native visualizations; no plugin required (though you will need a modern web browser)! Although programming experience is helpful, Protovis is mostly declarative and designed to be learned by example.

MilkChart

MilkChart is a simple to use, yet robust library for transforming table data into a chart. This library uses the HTML5

Plotkit

PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support. PlotKit is fully documented and there is a quick tutorial to get you started. PlotKit is a complete rewrite of CanvasGraph. It is better structured and supported.

gRaphaël (JavaScript Library)

gRaphaël’s goal is to help you create stunning charts on your website. It is based on Raphaël graphics library. Check out the demos to see static and interactive charts in action. gRaphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

Visualize

Accessible data visualization in HTML has always been tricky to achieve, particularly because elements such as images allow only the most basic features for providing textual information to non-visual users. Visualize uses a technique which use JavaScript to scrape data from an HTML table and generate charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element. The technique is particularly useful because the data for the visualization already exists in the page in structured tabular format, making it accessible to people who browse the web with a screen reader or other assistive technology.

Flot

Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side. The focus is on simple usage (all settings are optional), attractive looks and interactive features like zooming and mouse tracking.

The plugin works with Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2.x+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Konqueror 4.x+ with the HTML canvas tag (the excanvas Javascript emulation helper is used for IE).

API Google Chart

The Google Chart Tools enable adding live charts to any web page. It have a rich gallery of visualizations provided as Image charts (using a simple URL request to a Google chart server), Interactive charts (using a Google developed JavaScript library). it can read live data from a variety of data sources and it’s very simple to use.

Moochart

moochart is a plugin for MooTools 1.2 that draws bubble diagrams on the canvas tag. Future versions might include pie, bar & line graphs. You can find all the other info like download details and demo on it’s single page.

InfoVis

The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web. It provides you facility to combined the visualizations in order to create new visualization methods. All visualization classes are mutable, so you can easily add/override any method you want.

Canvas 3D Graph

Canvas 3D Graph is a special type of bar graph that plot numbers in 3D. This first started as PHP-GD project, but soon I realized that there is not much sense in generating complex graph like this on server side (script worked really fast, though). All the other details can be found on information page itself.

Dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library

dygraphs is an open source JavaScript library that produces produces interactive, zoomable charts of time series. It is designed to display dense data sets and enable users to explore and interpret them. It’s feature includes, Plots time series without using an external server or Flash, Works in Internet Explorer (using excanvas), Lightweight (45kb) and responsive, Displays values on mouseover (this makes it easily discoverable), Supports error bands around data series, Interactive zoom, Adjustable averaging period, Can intelligently chart fractions, Customizable click-through actions etc.

Flotr Javascript Plotting Library

Flotr is a javascript plotting library based on the Prototype Javascript Framework and inspired by Flot (written by Ole Laursen). Flotr enables you to draw appealing graphs in most modern browsers with an easy to learn syntax. It comes with great features like legend support, negative value support, mouse tracking, selection support, zoom support, event hooks, CSS styling support and much more.

JavaScript Diagram Builder

The JavaScript Diagram Builder v. 3.3 is a library of some objects and functions, which can help you to display a coordinate diagram (resp. a chart or graph) in your webpage in an easy way. The file ‘diagram.js’ contains all the necessary objects and functions. This file must be included in the header of your webpage:

The script will best work with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x, Netscape 6.x, Opera 7.x or Konqueror 3.x under Windows and Linux, but it will also work with Netscape 4.x and Opera 5.x under Windows and Linux with some restrictions.

The JavaScript Diagram Builder is especially useful, if you want to display a coordinate diagram (chart or graph) which depends on the client’s input parameter or from data of a database.

Grafico: Javascript Charting Library

Grafico is a javascript charting library built with Raphaël and Prototype.js. The library provides a wide array of graphs and stays with the guidelines laid out by Stephen Few and Edward Tufte. Grafico provides pretty charts that effectively communicate their information. This means you get awesome graphs such as stacked area charts and sparklines, but no pie charts or bar charts with every bar a different color. There are a lot of bad charts out there, and Grafico will do it’s best to prevent you from adding charts onto that pile.

Official Link Live Examples

MooWheel

The purpose of this script is to provide a unique and elegant way to visualize data using Javascript and the

MooCSSChart

mooCSSChart is a very easy way to creat charts using JavaScript and quick CSS.

Processing.js

Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.js uses Javascript to draw shapes and manipulate images on the HTML5 Canvas element. The code is light-weight, simple to learn and makes an ideal tool for visualizing data, creating user-interfaces and developing web-based games.

Processing.js is explicitly developed for browsers that support the HTML5

JSXGraph

JSXGraph is a cross-browser library for interactive geometry, function plotting, charting, and data visualization in a web browser. It is implemented completely in JavaScript, does not rely on any other library, and uses SVG and VML. JSXGraph is easy to embed and has a small footprint: less than 100 KByte if embedded in a web page. No plug-ins are required! Special care has been taken to optimize the performance.

jQuery Sparklines

This jQuery plugin generates sparklines (small inline charts) directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript. The plugin is compatible with most modern browsers and has been tested with Firefox 2+, Safari 3+, Opera 9, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 6, 7 & 8. Each example displayed below takes just 1 line of HTML or javascript to generate.

JavaScript Chart

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to add a stylish and colorful chart to your Web page with minimal effort and still avoid slow-loading Java applets or server side generated images? Then the JavaScript Chart is just what you need!

The JavaScript Chart supports:

Several charts on the same page
No limit on the number of data items in one chart (as long as you have enough space)
Pass the chart data as a string in the following format: Item A;1;Item B;2;Item C;3.
Gridlines are automatically created and spaced with appropriate increments depending on the highest value in the data range
Choose if item values should be displayed or not on each individual chart
Choose if the chart legend should be displayed or not
Each data item will automatically get a different matching color
Each chart can be rendered in debug mode, showing some useful information if the chart is not displayed as expected
Modification of some of the layout parameters with CSS

This small utility will simply take a semi-colon delimited data string (the delimiter can be changed) and generate a chart for you. You can add several charts to the same page and there is no limit to how many data items you can have in one chart, just as long as you have enough space in your page.

Bluff

Bluff is a JavaScript port of the Gruff graphing library for Ruby. It is designed to support all the features of Gruff with minimal dependencies; the only third-party scripts you need to run it are a copy of JS.Class (2.6kB gzipped) and a copy of Google’s ExCanvas to support canvas in Internet Explorer. Both these scripts are supplied with the Bluff download. Bluff itself is around 11kB gzipped.

To draw a graph, you create a new Bluff graph object using the id of a canvas element on the page, set some options, add the data and labels, then tell the graph to draw.

TableDiagram

TableDiagram script generates a diagram (chart) view of the data in a table. The values in the table must be non-negative (more than or equal to 0). They can be either integer or decimal.

HTML-Graphs

Anyone easily can use this script to create horizontal / vertical bar graphs, progress bars and faders. You can create simple graphs and even grouped bar graphs with legends, add labels, change colors etc. No graphics or graphical libraries required.

This script was tested with all the major systems and browsers

CSS Based Free Resources

Pie Graph

This is a purely DHTML/ CSS based Pie Graph script. It loads fast and blends in with the rest of the page. It’s very easy to customize and very easy to use. You can even use a transparent background for it!

Css Data Chart

Data visualization is mostly achieved with flash applications or with help of some programming languages. In this example you can learn how to creat data chart only using well formed markup and css. There is no need to use any JavaScript or any backend application. Of course, the markup could be generated programatically or by hand, whatever works best for you.

CSS Stacked Bar Graphs

To design the stats feature of Backbone, our Ruby on Rails CMS, we needed to show a stacked bar graph of page views vs unique visitors. There are plenty of CSS bar graph interpretations, but none of them did stacked bar graphs. So here you can learn how to creat CSS Stacked Bar Graphs Based off Alen Grakalic’s Pure CSS Data Chart.

AjaxMGraph

It’s very simple graph built in CSS to represent data. AjaxMGraph is a user interactive XHTML/CSS graph which is powered by PHP and using Ajax based graphing library built on the Prototype JavaScript framework.

CSS Bar Graphs

Having a working knowledge of XHTML and CSS when developing applications is a big help in knowing what can be done client-side and what should be generated server-side. The concept of creating CSS Bar Graphs is simple, utilize the percentage width abilities of CSS to accurately portray a percentage bar graph.

List Bar Chart

List Bar Chart are nothing more than a styled definition list with just classes defining each line. It’s very simple CSS mathod by which anyone can simply able to creat list bar charts. You may use this method on your personal ‘non-profit’ web site without seeking author’s permission.

Simple Accessible Charts

SAC (Simple Accessible Charts) are created from a list using CSS. It’s benefit includes: Fully searchable by search engines, Accessible, Scalable, Easy to expand, a more complete listing, and use of Only HTML and CSS.

Dynamic Pie Chart

This is very easy way of creating a semi-dynamic pie chart without the use of server-side imaging libraries.

Chart Demo

In web applications developed now days a lot of the logic that previously resided on the server side is now being implemented on the client side. This is especially true for information presentation, components such as trees and columnlist makes it possible for users to interact with the application, or web site if you wish, without contacting the server. However the ability to present data in a graphic rather than textual format has been quite limited, unless a plugin is used or an image is requested from the server. That’s where this component comes in to place, it allows various forms of charts to be created, without any additional plugin, and without using images.

Vertical Bar Graphs with CSS and PHP

Who wants to use Excel to make a new graph each week? Using CSS and PHP you can create attractive bar graphs (yes, even the stacked kind) that are always up to date.

Accessible Bar Chart

This is one more simple solution using CSS. It’s main feature includs:

Table headers are there but hidden using the aural text class discussed in a previous article. Sighted users have already received information on what the chart is about.
A bar is created using an image which is stretched to the appropriate size.
Bar widths are calculated relative to the largest value.
Value cells have a repeated background image which shows the vertical lines.
Browsing the chart without CSS or images will render an ordinary table.
Value labels can be hidden by using the aural text class.

PHP/ASP Libraries Based Free Resources

pChart (PHP Charts)

pChart is a PHP class oriented framework designed to create aliased charts. Most of todays chart libraries have a cost, our project is intended to be free. Data can be retrieved from SQL queries, CSV files, or manually provided. This project is still under development and new features or fix are made every week.

Focus has been put on rendering quality introducing an aliasing algorithm to draw eye candy graphics. Rendering speed has been dramatically enhanced since the first version, we’ll still continue optimising the code!

Visifire (Silverlight & WPF Charts)

Visifire is a set of open source data visualization controls – powered by Microsoft® Silverlight™ & WPF. Visifire is a multi-targeting control which can be used in both WPF & Silverlight applications. Using the same API, charts in both Silverlight & WPF environments can be created within minutes. Visifire Silverlight Controls can also be embedded in any webpage as a standalone Silverlight App. Visifire is independent of server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, SharePoint, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Python, Ruby or just simple HTML.

jqPlot

jqPlot is a plotting and charting plugin for the jQuery Javascript framework. jqPlot produces beautiful line, bar and pie charts with many features:

Numerous chart style options.
Date axes with customizable formatting.
Up to 9 Y axes.
Rotated axis text.
Automatic trend line computation.
Tooltips and data point highlighting.
Sensible defaults for ease of use.

Libchart

Libchart is a free chart creation PHP library, that is easy to use. Main festure includes:

Bar charts (horizontal or vertical).
Line charts.
Pie charts.
Single or multiple data sets.
Compatibility with PHP 5.
Easy to study how it works and adapt to your needs.
No external dependency, need only PHP compiled with GD and FreeType.

JpGraph

JpGraph is a Object-Oriented Graph creating library for PHP >= 5.1 The library is completely written in PHP and ready to be used in any PHP scripts (both CGI/APXS/CLI versions of PHP are supported).

The library can be used to create numerous types of graphs either on-line or written to a file. JpGraph makes it easy to draw both “quick and dirty” graphs with a minimum of code as well as complex graphs which requires a very fine grained control. The library assigns context sensitive default values for most of the parameters which minimizes the learning curve. The features are there when you need them – not as an obstacle to overcome!

.netCHARTING

.netCHARTING combines visually stunning graphics and a comprehensive interface to bring you one of the most compelling charting solutions available for any platform.

.netCHARTING utilizes the .NET framework and GDI+ providing a managed charting solution for C# and VB.NET developers working with ASP.NET or WinForms. Using the latest Microsoft technologies has enabled us to step beyond existing visual charting standards and produce visuals much stronger than typical dynamic charting solutions. In fact, we hope you will agree that the .netCHARTING visuals are even superior to high end desktop charting applications!

Image Graph

Image_Graph is, as is indicated by the title, a project to create graphs. It utilizes PHP’s object oriented model, to simple but very customizable enable a user/developer to create highly versatile graphs.

Image_Graph has many features, here are mentioned but a few of them:

14 different chart types
3 different layout for each chart type (normal, stacked or stacked summarizing 100%)
5 types of data source
Driver based to support multiple formats (JPEG, PNG, SVG, PDF and initial support for SWF)
Many charts or coordinate systems displayed in the same graph
Every line, every color, every font can be customized
Easy-to-use API, through thoroughly designed ‘natural’ object oriented framework
PEAR package – governing for quality and standardization
Java style layout of multiple plots
Line/area-smoothing using Bezier curves
PHP5 support

Flash Based Free Resources

FusionCharts

FusionCharts Free is a completely free and open-source Flash charting component. It empowers you to create animated and interactive Flash charts for your web applications, desktop applications and presentations. No matter which script or database you are using, even if it is simple HTML, you can take care of all your basic charting needs with FusionCharts Free.

XML/SWF Charts

XML/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive charts and graphs from XML data.

Create an XML source to describe a chart, then pass it to this tool’s flash file to generate the chart. The XML source can be prepared manually, or generated dynamically using any scripting language (PHP, ASP, CFML, Perl, etc.)

XML/SWF Charts makes the best of both the XML and SWF worlds. XML provides flexible data generation, and Flash provides the best graphic quality.

amcharts (Free Version)

mCharts is a set of Flash charts for your websites and Web-based products. AmCharts can extract data from simple CSV or XML files, or they can read dynamic data generated with PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby on Rails, Perl, ColdFusion, and many other programming languages.

Open Flash Chart

Open Flash Chart is a collection of Flash applets that you embed in your web page, and which fetch data from the web server to display. At the time of writing, Version 1 lets you create various types of bar chart, line chart and pie chart. Version 2, introduces more sophisticated graph types such as stacked bars. In both cases you get nice little refinements as well as animated pie charts, and with a little fiddling you can customise the way your graph appears by changing its colours, fonts and size. And Open Flash Chart is British, so you’re not only encouraging open source but British open source.

AnyChart

AnyChart is a flexible Flash based charting solution.

AnyChart enables any organization to add cross-browser and cross-platform interactive Flash charts, dashboards, graphs and maps to their applications.
Using AnyChart, our customers are able to maximize the value of their applications by easily adding data visualization tools that:

Enable better analysis and decision making by allowing comprehensive and free-flowing data exploration. This provides the ability to spot patterns and trends.
Increase customer satisfaction by enhancing the look of any application, report, or presentation.
Lower developments costs and speed time-to market.

Rich Chart

Rich Chart Server generates captivating dynamic Flash charts from ASP.NET and Windows Forms applications. Use the included authoring tool to visually design a rich chart template which can include stunning animation effects, audio narration, text and image elements, links and tooltips, and any other type of visual customization. Apply the chart template to any available .NET data source or XML document to generate an interactive Flash chart with drill-downs, enabling sophisticated data navigation between multiple charts.

Swiff Chart

Swiff Chart Generator is the server-side solution to dynamically serve eye-catching animated charts from ASP.NET forms, PHP scripts or JSP scripts. Query data from a database, apply your own style template created with the Swiff Chart authoring tool and instantly generates high-impact charts in Adobe Flash format, PNG/JPG format, SVG format and PDF format.

Other Free Resources

JFreeChart (Java chart library)

JFreeChart is a free Java chart library. It supports pie charts (2D and 3D), bar charts (horizontal and vertical, regular and stacked), line charts, scatter plots, time series charts, high-low-open-close charts, candlestick plots, Gantt charts, combined plots, thermometers, dials and more. JFreeChart can be used in applications, applets, servlets and JSP.

ProtoChart

ProtoChart is a new opensource library using Prototype and Canvas to create good looking charts. This library is highly motivated by Flot, Flotr and PlotKit libraries. It’s Feature includes:

Line, bar, pie, curve, mix, and area charts available
Multiple data series on same graph
Highly customizable legend support
Customizable grid, grid border, background
Customizable axis-tick values (both x and y)
Supports: IE6/7, FF2/3 and Safari
Even works on an iPhone!

Find Something Missing?

While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some other great chart or graph solutions. Feel free to share it with us.

55 Latest Examples of Perfect Slideshow Presentation in Web Design

Dkumar M — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:08:27 +0000

As you already seen in our previous posts about slideshow presentation designs that representing the key information in slideshow presentation is a hot trend now days. There are many reasons to use a slideshow or image slider in your web designs as the key to smart strategic web design is finding a smartest and interactive way to display your information to your visitors.

In this showcase, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful, unique, and most importantly inspirational designs which are following the same trend of slideshow presentation. We don’t want you to follow any specific trend as the aim here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to create your own design trend because your website represents you and your brand.

As designers, we’re all trying to get better at what we do. The more time and effort you dedicate for a usable, eye-catching design and hitting your objectives, the higher are your chances for getting better results in the end.

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Perfect Slideshow Presentation in Web Design

Earlier, Sliders are very popular on home pages of corporate websites as they are very useful for showing key information about a company or their services but now days it’s widely used for almost every type of websites. Because of their value to websites, slideshows are customarily placed in the most visible location of the page, and thus can make a significant impact on the visitor’s first impression. You might also noticed that using of sliders is very famous for portfolios these days as showcasing your work in slides is very meaningful and attractive.

01. Legworkstudio

02. Graphik

03. Winestore-online

04. Qlear

05. Pastebot

06. Saintjohnsbible

07. Mimeo

08. Icondesigner

09. Freshout

10. Mondaily

11. Loveincolor

12. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine

13. Fontexplorerx

14. Beneteauusa

15. 45royal

16. Trevorsaint

17. Drupalcon

18. Zootool

19. Macallanridge

20. Glacial

21. Squaredeye

22. Shaungroves

23. Eighty8four

24. Markdearman

25. Benjamindavid

26. Designbits

27. Tweetie-iphone

28. Dantestyle

29. Thingsthatarebrown

30. Envero

31. Designbyhumans

32. Household-design

33. Joshsmith

34. Spacecollective

35. Globalonenessproject

36. Kinder-aktuell

37. Thewojogroup

38. Creamycss

39. Miaandmaggie

40. Etondigital

41. Teapot

42. Newsberry

43. Radimkurka

44. Pixel-inspire

45. Spiraldesign

46. Puppetbrain

47. Bobwal

48. Lomotek

49. Kollektivdreinull

50. Estebanmunoz

51. Jp3design

52. Jiga

53. Inseo

54. Slicemachine

55. Dconvulsions

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70+ Fresh and Inspirational Single Page Website Designs

Daniel Adams — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:49:36 +0000

As you already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Even though this is not a common trend to follow but still as the new design styles come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them in their work, this kind of trends emerge.

In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs.

The main purpose here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to create your own design trend because your website represents you and your brand.

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Single Page Website Design Inspiration

Throughout history, great artists always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. The Definition of design is more critical in modern terms as now design is a way of communication; and, more specifically, Web design is a well define platform for content. There is no “Good” and “Bad” in design. It always define as a “Different”.

01. Danielhellier

02. Dafvy

03. Carrotcreative

04. Caffedigital

05. Jarnheimer

06. Maideyi

07. Jorobalinov

08. Makepretend

09. Fuelbrandinc

10. Ajaxmasters

11. Thehorizontalway

12. Think.dj

13. Hireme

14. Iamjamie

15. Clholloway

16. Loscoloresolvidados

17. Saladdesign

18. Farmhousefare

19. Onlinejaarverslag

20. Jamesmaddox

21. Shapeshifter

22. Aubreyedwards

23. Radioactivethinking

24. Ovefelt

25. Creativeswitch

26. Toothjuice

27. Andrewcanham

28. Chevychase

29. Dantestyle

30. Nicu

31. Ctrln

32. Jepson

33. Fsdsign

34. Adamwoodhouse

35. Jchilders

36. Babyyu

37. Zova-vcard

38. Motif.tv

39. Dougmuise

40. Hautes.mynes

41. Richardarran

42. Furtzdesigns

43. Clementcrownrise

44. Skywalkergraphics

45. Ryancoxusa

46. Paolomanganiello

47. Estudios-aqua

48. Happilycreate

49. Sockho

50. Oskarkron

51. Gravdesign

52. Imarscreative

53. V-card

54. Cameronbaney

55. Lonnroth

56. Egofoto

57. Tmgdenver

58. Fernandobittar

59. Myagy

60. Harnods

61. Yatai

62. Coryetzkorn

63. Waldau90210

64. Webdynamix

65. Skototron

66. Inezborges

67. Rgbstudio

68. Viewpointapp

69. Sprockethouse

70. Makers

71. Nosurprises

72. Handcraftedcss

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66 Examples of Perfect SlideShow Presentation in Web Design

25 Examples of Incredible Ideas and Designs

Photography, Digital Showcase and Art inspiration

Opening Ceremonies for Vancouver 2010

A Showcase of Minimalist Workstations

82 CG Superheros, Villains, and Iconic Movie and Video Game Characters

50 Breathtakingly Beautiful CG Landscapes

50 Frightening (But Inspiring) Digital Illustrations Of Dragons

75 Mind-Blowing Examples of Concept Art

25 Beautiful Examples of Action Sequence Photography

60+ Amazing Digital Photo Manipulation Art

80 Extreme Advertisements That Will Challenge Your Mind

Freebies Resources (Themes, Wallpapers, PSDs, Icons, Vectors, Fonts etc.)

20 Fresh Sets of Free Icons for Web Designers

50 Gorgeous Wallpapers to Spice Up Your Desktop

33 Free Blue Patterns to Download

60+ Latest High-Quality Free WordPress Themes

40 Detailed and High Quality Mobile Phone .psd Source Files

50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

100+ Vintage Textures and Photoshop Brushes to Decorate Your Design

Mega Collection of The Best Free Social Media Icons for Bloggers and Designers

35 Latest High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designers

100+ Resources for WordPress Theme Developers

Tutorials, Tips, Tricks & Hacks Resources

50 Useful Cartoon Character Design Tutorials

100+ Maya 3D Tutorials For Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Users

88 Ultimate Round-Up of Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials

33 New High Quality Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

10+ Tips For Using Twitter To Grow Your Freelance Business

30 Best Written And Explained Logo Design Tutorials

Unique Blog Posts and WordPress Tips

11 Tips for Making Your Home Office More Comfortable

CSS, xHTML, PHP, Javascript and Ajax Resources

50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques

50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms)

50 Awesome Animations made with CSS3

CSS3 Techniques You Should Know

24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations

Applying Mathematics To Web Design

WordPress : 10+ life saving SQL queries

Appz, Tools and Development Resources

20 Great Project Management Tools

21 Free Music Players For Your Website and Blogs

10 Great Tools to Create a Mobile Version of Your Site

35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Slideshows, Graphs and Text Effects

13 Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs

8 Great Apps that Every Freelance Developer Needs

Freelancing Resources

Successful Strategies For Selling Ad Space On Low-Traffic Websites

5 Guaranteed Ways to Hate Your Own Writing

What to Do When the Client Is Wrong

10 Pathways to Inspired Writing

Is John The Client Dense or Are You Failing Him?

5 Ways to Manage Distractions for Increased Productivity

50 Freelance Job Sites For Designers & Programmers – Best Of

How to Grow as a Web Designer

Five “Old School” Tactics That Can Ruin Your Sales Page

7 Elements of a Successful Freelancer’s Website

What’s the Next Step in a Freelancing Career?

Why I Failed at Freelancing

5 Sneaky Ways to Get Free Traffic to Your Freelancing Blog

Miscellaneous Resources

10 Things Clients Look For In a Design Portfolio

10 ways to make Internet Explorer act like a modern browser

Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications

Common Misconceptions about Web Designers

11 Essential Tips Every Designer Should Be Aware Of

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Logo Design Inspiration: 65+ Brilliant Fresh Designs

Anders Ross — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:19:42 +0000

A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors, fonts, and images usually are different from others in a similar market. Logos are also used to identify organizations and other non-commercial entities.

These types of corporate identities are often developed by large firms who specialize in this type of work. However, if you want to save some bucks and want to design your logo then there are many sources to get logo design inspiration. Infect, we might able to help you by presenting this showcase of Highly beautiful, original and creative logo designs for your design inspiration.

All of these logos are very creative and following different trends like PhotoFill, Concealed, VariDots, Candy Stripe, Flip Flop, Sequential, but most importantly Texting which is a common element among all of them. Also, try to catch how they created using specific colors combination, typography adjustments and font selection.

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Brilliant Logo Designs For Design Inspiration

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88 Ultimate Round-Up of Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials

Dkumar M — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:26:12 +0000

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Display beautiful images is a potent element in web and graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using images in an artistic manner. Photoshop is useful for both creating and editing images to be used in print or online. Not too easy to use, but full of high-quality features, Photoshop is the best choice for any image manipulation job.

Below, you’ll find some of the Best Adobe Photoshop Tutorials For Photo Manipulation which might help you to get inspired and learned a tip or two by the end of this presentation.

For those, who don’t know what is Adobe Photoshop? And what it can do? Then follow the link below for detail introduction.

The next generation, representing two decades of excellence. This application contains everything you need to create high-end images and graphics. For those artists whose work demands more than the basic application, There is a Photoshop to satisfy their every needs that utilizes Image editing & photo manipulation.

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Ultimate Round-Up of Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials

The demand for Photoshop tutorials are too much in these days and finding the best tutorials from the pool with tens of thousands of tutorials is not a easy job to perform. Designers love all kind of Photoshop tutorials that can help them to easily learn more and more everyday and give them ideas and directions to design more beautiful and attractive creative works. This list contains some of the Best Handpicked Photoshop Photo Manipulatio Tutorials around for your Image editing & photo manipulatio related needs.

01. Create a Model Riding Digital Volume

This is a tutorial illustrating perspective techniques and how you can achieve the feeling of depth and motion. This will be done in a few steps, such as placing the main character, creating the volume fading away and adding foreground and background images.

02. Dazzling Dance Photo Manipulation

In this detailed and lengthy Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to combine photos and add special effects to turn a normal photograph into a stunning artwork. You will also learn several tricks to reduce your Photoshop document file size and number of layers and layer styles.

03. Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images

In this tutorial you can learn how to apply the Warp Tool effectively and a few other tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff. This is probably more for intermediate users, as this tuorial guide you through the process well, but not every Warp Grid point handle move.

04. The Making of “Constant Slip”

This tutorial takes you through the creative process of making intriguing light effects and applying them in your work. This is more a process description of making this illustration, than a detailed step by step how to. Also, you can have some good guidance on how to deal with an illustration like this and cover the overall workflow.

05. Creating a Spy Fly Photo Manipulation

This tutorial describes the main steps in creating a dead robot fly. This art piece was actually created for a contest and of course the first prize was the result. The concept of this illustration was to take a picture and be creative, use parts of that image and create something unique.

06. Create amazing water-drenched photomontages

In this tutorial, you can learn how to make a splash, blending two very different images to create this amazing underwater effect, complete with a dissolving figure of a man. This tutorial provides step-by-step guidance on how to make a stunning, dynamic effect that recreates the look of a figure dissolving in water, with some clever use of Photoshop and some found images. Although the finished image appears hi-tech, it is just a very clever photomontage constructed from just two images, using relatively simple Photoshop techniques – the secret is in knowing which tool to use when, and putting the time into making sure it’s precisely executed.

07. Create a Never Ending Staircase Illusion

In this short tutorial you can learn how to create a never ending staircase illusion with PhotoShop. Textured with wood, stone, grass or what ever you choose.

08. Create a Photo Manipulation of a Flooded City Scene

In this tutorial, we will learn how to manipulate a simple photo into a flooding torrent of a scene. Also, how to use some relatively simple techniques to give this image a semi-realistic, stylized feel.

09. The Making of Mystic

In this tutorial we all can learn the process of making a spectacular image. This tutorial focuses on the big picture steps taken to create this image. You’ll learn some incredible techniques in this tutorial, and get a view into how one can creates beautiful photo-manipulation based images.

10. Create a Stunning 3D Liquid Explosion Artwork

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a Poser figure, create a shatter effect and render it in 3DStudio Max, then use Photoshop and some simple stock images to create a brilliant and visually stunning water explosion effect. Even if you don’t have Poser or 3DSMax, we’ve included the render in a PNG format for you to play with, and you’ll still learn valuable techniques.

Tutorial Link – Part I, Part II

11. Create a Vivid Themed Illustration

Drawn elements are certainly something that can enhance an illustration. Even if you’re not very good at drawing, you can still create a quality piece. All you need is a good idea and some Photoshop skills. And if you don’t believe me, you will definitely change your mind after reading this tutorial.

12. Create frozen liquid effects

This tutorial will shows how you can bring the coolest of effects to your illustrations. Here you’ll learn technique by which anyone can transform almost anything into what looks like water or frozen fluid.

13. Create A Fantastic Natural Combination Scene

If you cant afford high quality stock images or graphics for your blog articles or website design then you can use this tutorial which showcases how you can create your own unique image according to your requirment using many images.

14. How to Create a Steampunk Golden Car

This tutorial shows you how you can convert a real car image into a steampunk golden car using coolest effects of photoshop.

15. Create A Slow Motion Bullet Shot Effect

In this tutorial you all going to learn how to make a nice bullet shot effect and how you can use a technological object such as a remote control to show a lot of tiny parts flying off after the impact: the circuit board, the buttons, a few chips.

16. Create a Dramatic Impact to a Planet Scene

This is a tutorial about how to create simple looking impact effects using some creative skills of photoshop.

17. Creating a Touching Story Scene

In this tutorial, you are going to create a story scene using photo manipulation and a lot of color adjustments. The outcome is simply amazing.

18. How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes and Layer Masks.

19. Awesome Avatar Transformation

This is a Photoshop tutorial showing you all the steps you need to take in order to photo-manipulate yourself into a Na’vi (based on the characters in James Cameron’s movie “Avatar”).

20. Create An Amazing Alien Invasion

If you really inspired by alian arts then you must going to enjoy this tutorial. Here you can learn a step by step process to creat a alien invasion scenario which looks so real that you going to feel horrified by the outcome.

21. Create An Urban Tiger Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial we will examine the methods behind creating an image that contains a window to another world within it, as we smash a hole in urban life to reveal the jungle waiting in the wings. We’ll look at several basic techniques that are the cornerstones of creating any mixed media composition, including simple transformations, creating clipping paths and layer masking.

22. Create Glass Transparency in a Cute Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to incorporate glass into your work. We’ll learn a good technique for incorporating glass transparency into photo manipulations, while placing a cute, pirate hamster on the high seas.

23. How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial, we’ll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniques and tools such as the Brush tool and Warp command. We hope you enjoy the tutorial and try it with your own stock imagery.

24. Create a Dark Melancholic Photo Manipulation Scene

In this photo manipulation tutorial, we will be creating a melancholic and enthralling piece using Photoshop. Here, you all can learn several techniques for blending images seamlessly. We’ll cover how to paint realistic lighting and shadows, how to create an effect of a moving sky like it just came out from a long exposure shot, how to make a vignette, how to utilize fill and adjustment layers, and more.

25. Create a Steampunk Style Illustration

After going through this steampunk tutorial you’ll feel like going simultaneously backward and forward in time. The main focus, aside from the style of course, is fusing elements from different sources together to create a cohesive whole. There are many tricks to this end and we shall be looking at light sources, shadows, and image grading.

26. Create a Post Apocalyptic Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a post apocalyptic manipulation using adjustment layers, vector masks, and some special effects.

27. Scared Photomanipulation Tutorial

This tutorial will teaches you some basic things about photomanipulation by creating a scared scenario using images of human body object.

28. How to make an AVATAR Na’vi

This tutorial was made to help step you through the making of Na’vi from the film “Avatar”. By this process you can able to convert any image into this Avatar character.

29. How to Create a Magical Painted Scene

In this tutorial, we will be using several basic tools and stock images to create a fantasy artwork where everything seems to come alive from what is being painted on an old piece of paper.

30. Create a Fantastic Tree

Once again a tutorial full of horrer. Here you can learn that how you can create a scared tree using just some simple images.

31. How to Create Cityscape Concept Art

In this tutorial, you will learn how to easily create a successful piece of cityscape concept art. We’ll be using a very basic 3D scene as a foundation for the piece, then taking it into Photoshop for some creative photo manipulation of reference photos, basic painting and adjustments.

32. Create an Abstract Sea on Land Illusion

Here, you will learn how to use paths and masking to produce an abstract view of sea on land. You will also learn some cool texturing ideas.

33. Use a 3D Model to Create a Dramatic Scene

For this tutorial you’ll need Photoshop CS3 Extended, as the tutorial utilizes that version’s unique 3D Tools. You will import a three-dimensional object of an airplane and use it to create a dramatic scene. Use the Vanishing Point filter to create realistic shadows, add texture to the model, and use brush Tools to get awesome results.

34. Photomanipulation Comic Book Effect

In this tutorial you can learn how to create an exciting comic out of photos and filter effects. This tutorial will teach you how turn a normal highway photo into an intense action scene.

35. Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop

In this tutorial you can learn how to create a surreal time-themed photomanipulation using Photoshop. The name of this photomanipulation is “Time Guardian” which is not common and very creative to use.

36. Create an Amazing Light Beam Surrounding a Lady

This tutorial gives you some insight in to techniques and concepts by which you can learn how to create and colorize a textured background and how you can genrate a custom brush-style in Adobe Photoshop also a way to employ the Smudge-Tool and Displace-Filter. Also, you can learn the creation and modify of custom vector-shapes and how to optimize color-curves and alter colors using adjustment layers.

37. Making of a Sexy Humanoid

This tutorial will takes you to the step-by-step process of creating the amazing humanoid form using some simple photoshop techniques.

38. Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect

In this tutorial, Fabio shows you how to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power. He’ll teach you how to use images and filters to produce this wave explosion effect. Even though it may look like a difficult tutorial, it’s really not that hard.

39. Water effect photo montage

Very interesting tutorial by which you can learn how to convert any object into water look like effect.

40. Create a Magical Golden Winged Boot

This tutorial will teach you how to create a magical flying boot using a combination of photo manipulation and awesome light effects.

41. How To Create A Beautiful Indian Sunset Scenery

In this tutorial, We will see how to create a beautiful sunset, in a rocky scene with teepees. We will using many pictures to create this scene. We also use The Dodge and Burn Tools, as well as Color Balance and curves, to achieve the goal.

42. Making of a Scary Mental Hospital Scene

Very creative yet simple tutorial about how to creat a scary mental hospital scene.

43. How to Create a Somber Composition

In this tutorial you will learn how to manipulate stock images and turn them into your puppets to express your desired feelings.

44. Create an Imaginative Golden Apple Tree

Here, In this tutorial we’ll see how to convert simple tree into a fantecy golden apple tree.

45. Super Fast – Speed Lighting Effect

Take an image of a fireworks display and turn it into an intense sensation of speed. Manipulate natural lighting to fill a motion filled scene. Use masks to blend the effect over a car image to make the car appear to be in motion. This tutorial shows you exactly what to do.

46. Create a Platform Environment

In this tutorial, you will learn how to combine digital painting and photo manipulation to create polished fantasy art. The process of combining digital painting and photo manipulation is a great mix. It truly allows you conquer the world with beautiful illustrations.

47. How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to take splattered paint Photoshop brushes and apply them to the contours of a model’s face. This is a relatively simple technique, which yields excellent artistic results.

48. Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation

This Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a variety of color, lighting, and cut and paste techniques to create a surreal photo manipulation. Combine your creativity with these Photoshop techniques to create your own photo manipulation artworks.

49. Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad

The Blackberry Loves U2 TV promo features some awesome, bright and vibrant lighting effects. Let’s take a look at recreating the style to produce a Blackberry inspired design of our own.

50. Skating in clouds

This tutorial showcases how to creat a magical clouds scene from various textures and simple photoshop techniques.

51. Age Progression

Here’s a little tutorial showing you how one can basically go about aging a woman’s face in Photoshop.

52. Create an energy sci-fi scene

Here, In this tutorial you can learn how to use Photoshop to combine 3D renders with stock images and light effects. This is an unconventional Photoshop tutorial because it is focused more on the process rather then the technique.

53. Design a 3D Machinary War Scene

This tutorial shows you how to seamlessly blend 3D models into your 2D composites using Photoshop Extended. You’ll discover how easy it is to roll, rotate and slide complex models within 3D space.

54. Join the DarkSide

If you guys into KOTOR2 (Knights of the Old Republic: Part 2) then you might going to like it as you should know this effect! which we going to learn in this tutorial.

55. Designing a war movie poster

In this tutorial I will show you guys some simple but efficient techniques that will help you make great movie posters using simple photo manipulation techniques.

56. Use lighting effects to make photos sparkle

Turning a run-of-the-mill photo into a dazzling one is simple – when you know the right tricks. This tutorial shows how to create a variety of light effects that can be applied to photography or illustration with equal impact.

57. Create a Surreal Scene of Flying Bombs on Fire

In this tutorial, we’ll make a scene with flaming bombs pouring from the sky. This tut is made to show some down and dirty Photoshop tricks that beginners can quickly pick up. It also includes some relatively advanced techniques to help budding designers enhance their workflow.

58. How to Create a Fantasy “Mother Nature” Scene

This tutorial is about creating a fantasy scene called “Mother Nature.” We will use well chosen images, brushes and most off all our imagination in combination with Photoshop techniques to create an outstanding image.

59. Beautiful Sunrise Landscape

Learn how to combine and blend multiple landscape photos to create a beautiful sunrise landscape. You will also learn about masking and other selection methods.

60. Create a Face Shattering Effect

This tutorial takes you to the process of creation of a face shattering effect which is highly creative if you like to play with your own images.

61. Making a Beautiful Pair of Fantasy Eyes

In this tutorial, we will explore the basics on how one can create fantasy eyes effects in Photoshop.

62. Make a Vivid Flaming Skull Conceptual Composition

In this Photoshop tutorial, We will learn how to combine stock images and typography into a beautiful conceptual composition. The aim is to explain the creative process and motivations behind design decisions made while creating a digital art piece. Also, we’ll see through some powerful Photoshop tools and commands that allow you to control color balance and image vividness.

63. Create incredible B-movie poster art

This tutorial shows you how to combine 3D renders with stylized photography, text and smoke to capture all the camp horror of an alien invasion. This spoof movie poster design is a simple but effective way of tackling those graphics challenges where there seem to be too many thoughts to fit in: it enables the designer to combine slogans and other textual elements with the bare bones of a storyline and striking images, all bound up in an iconic format that everybody will recognize.

64. create a plane crash in Photoshop

This tutorial teach you how to create a scene with a plane crashing on a mountain using ordinary images, and with simple techniques that will create an explosive horror scene. Even with basic Photoshop skills, you can quickly find a path to create such photo manipulations. Try to find good stock images with the same perspective, and you are on the good way.

65. Create a Divine Angel Montage in Photoshop

Here, You will create this photo manipulation using stock images provided by some really great artists. The final image is an Angel that lights his way in the dark forest.

66. Animal King Photo Manipulation Tutorial

In this photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to mash up a series of photos in a highly creative poster based on a famous painting from the 1800’s.

67. Photo-Manipulation: Lonely Fairy

This tutorial will walk you through the steps of blending various photos into one, realistic magical piece. You’ll work with blending modes, lighting and color adjustments and compositional planning.

68. Create a Cyborg With Photoshop

In this tutorial you’ll discover how to incorporate mundane, everyday objects into a cyborg creation. Combining household objects with 3D renders is a technique that can have interesting results. This will also give you an opportunity to get to grips with the Pen tool, the Dodge and Burn tools and blending modes, as well as the Transform and Warp functions to make it even more realistic.

69. Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation with Twisting Water

In this tutorial, we’re going to create a fantasy photo manipulation mixing different images and learning to use and modify the stock images in a creative way. The idea is to get a compact image that looks absolutely real, and at the same time, absolutely impossible!

70. Create a Flying Land Illustration On Fire

This tutorial is about creating a fantasy illustration using some dragon images and a few cliffs for creating the land. We also add lava and fiery effects.

71. Snail race photo montage

In this tutorial we will be learning some more photomanipulation to create a snail race scene.

72. Create A Distressed Surreal Cityscape

Matte painting plays a major role in today’s films. The first known matte painting shot was made in 1907 by Norman Dawn (ASC), you can see how the traditional matte painting evolved from “The Wizard Of Oz” to the ground breaking “Avatar”. In this tutorial we will see some techniques in matte painting to create a distressed surreal cityscape.

73. Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation

This tutorial showcases you how to use different blending modes to blend flying hairs easily and to make semi-transparent planet. You will also ging to learn the different techniques of adjustment to get the most realistic results in your photo manipulations!

74. Create Grungy Style Artwork with Shattered Effect

In this tutorial, you’ll see the steps to create this Grungy Style Artwork, Mixing with Great Lighting and Shattered Effect in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial and some steps can be tricky.

75. Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel

In this tutorial you can learn how to combine several photos to create a dramatic ‘fallen angel’ scene.

76. Bloody Method Photoshop tutorial

This tutorial shows you the step-by-step method to creat some sort of bloody mouth with a dark and quite dramatic style of flow.

77. Create a Fantasy Landscape

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a fantasy landscape using some simple and easy techniques. Everyone with basic Photoshop skills can succeed to recreate this simple image using the most important thing in this kind of photo manipulation – the right stock.

78. How To Create a Photo Manipulation with Your Own Photos and Textures

In this tutorial, You can learn some tips on how to take your own photos for the photo manipulation. You will learn, how to blend pictures, apply textures, create your own brushes etc.

79. Transform a person into an alien

In this tutorial is written how to create a very cool looking alien using Adobe Photoshop. Grab a picture of someone and get ready to alienize it!

80. Design an Intense Particle Illustration

This tutorial shows you a simple process of manipulating a image with lighting effects and incorporating brushes too. This tutorial will bid you a step by step guide on how to achieve the illustrated outcome.

81. Create an Old Fantasy Space City

This tutorial will explain how to make an Old Space City from a single source image in photoshop. Please notice that every part in the scene in great detail. Watch the images in each step carefully, as most of the instructions are embedded in the step images.

82. Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper

There are plenty of ways to create a Watercolor Effect in Photoshop. Some are very cheesy and you can easily tell that a simple filter has been used. In this tutorial, we will be using Layer Masking. It is one of the most fascinating and powerful Photoshop method, to use layer masks in your designs.

83. Create the Photo Manipulation “Brightness Tomorrows”

In this tutorial, We will see how to create a futuristic looking photo manipulation using some special tools, such as the Background Eraser Tool and how to blend pictures properly using Match Color Adjustments and Lighting Effects.

84. Gunshot Through a Glass

In this tutorial you can learn how to create a suspenseful photo manipulation in Photoshop. You will also learn how to create realistic distortions with the displace filter and apply photo effects to give it a cold look.

85. Creating the Spoiled Princess Fashion Poster

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a fashion advertisement poster. We’ll be combining multiple images, finding the perfect stock, and unifying it with just the right colors.

86. How to Create an Abstract Photo Manipulation

Here we’ll learn how to create an abstract photo manipulation that looks like you’ve just painted the subject. This tutorial included lots of useful techniques for creating impressive abstract pieces which is simple but if you don’t understand any steps then just skip it as not all of them are compulsory.

87. How to Create a Chilling Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial we’ll see how one can create a fantasy photo manipulation called “You Can Not Frost The Time” with using several Photoshop tools such as Color Range, different blending modes, and more.

88. How To Create a Futuristic Sci-Fi Scene

This tutorial guides you through the steps to create a futuristic sci-fi scene. We will transform original pictures using Photoshop tools that will help to give the image a more spectacular look.